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‘The disadvantage of free elections,’ V. M. Molotov (the Soviet Foreign Minister in 1946) remarked to Ernest Bevin, ‘is that you can never be sure who is going to win them.’
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See C. Seymour, Electoral Reform in England and Wales (New Haven, 1915);
H. L. Morris, Parliamentary Franchise Reform in England from 1885 to 1918 (New York, 1921);
D. E. Butler, The Electoral System in Britain since 1918 (Oxford University Press, 1963).
See John P. Mackintosh, The Government and Politics of Britain (London: Hutchinson, 1977);
R. M. Punnett, British Government and Politics (London: Heinemann, 1976),
J. Harvey and L. Bather, The British Constitution (London: Macmillan, 1964).
See Vernon Bogdanor and David Butler (eds), Democracy and Elections: Electoral Systems and their Political Consequences (Cambridge University Press, 1983);
David Butler, Howard R. Penniman and Austin Ranney (eds), Democracy at the Polls: A Comparative Study of Competitive National Elections (Washington DC: American Enterprise Institute, 1981);
Dick Leonard and Richard Natkiel, World Atlas of Elections (London: Economist Publishing Company, 1986);
Richard Rose (ed.), Electoral Behavior: A Comparative Handbook (New York: The Free Press, 1974).
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Leonard, D. (1996). Introduction. In: Elections in Britain Today. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25112-4_1
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